MASTERPIECE #2857

/// I, myself, never have been inclined
to eat shrimp, when on seafood I’ve dined.
The first person to try it
wasn’t picky with diet.
That guy must have been starving and blind.

/// There are probably very high odds,
that the first men to eat arthropods,
had been given a dare
and were forced then to swear,
“It’s ambrosia, the food of the gods!”

/// I know people who crave and go limp
for a crunchy bite of jumbo shrimp.
But I won’t make war on
that famed oxymoron,
‘cause they scare me, and I’m such a wimp.

/// It is not that shrimp taste so displeasing,
or some allergy sets me to wheezing.
I suspect it’s the crunch
heard and felt when I munch,
the shrimp’s innards, that gets my guts seizing.

/// The King Crab justly earned his great fame.
In comparison, shrimp’s put to shame.
The shrimp can’t do a thing
to checkmate the crab King
for he’s only a prawn in the game.

/// Jews have rules about matzoh and bread
and the foods which they may not be fed.
This is called “keeping kosher.”
Here’s my rules, (full disclosure):
Keep your shrimp, give me bacon instead.

/// Here’s some facts for you eager shrimp eaters,
know that not all are clean, raised by breeders.
Parasites and dead skin
from a dead fish’s fin
is their diet, they’re true bottom feeders.

/// Shrimp and cockroaches both are a sight
that fill most folks who view them with fright.
But we have to admit,
and give credit (a bit):
Roaches flee when you turn on the light.

/// Of those arthropods mentioned before,
who’d replace us when mankind’s no more,
I don’t know about prawn,
but the roach will live on
past a vast worldwide nuclear war.